Sentence examples for were greater than expected from inspiring English sources

The new subway line was a hit, and crowds were greater than expected; soon the platforms were extended, adding to the pedestrian loads.

Problems with drug procurement were greater than expected, and donors had delivered only about $9 billion of the $27 billion pledged.

Circuit City Group said yesterday that fiscal second-quarter profit at its consumer electronics stores would be hurt because costs to leave the appliance business were greater than expected.

In both cases, the thermal conductivities were greater than expected from classical models.

For all cases, advective transport across the barrier was negligible, but preexisting numerical approaches to calculate dispersion yielded dispersive fluxes that were greater than expected.

In comparison to a conventional model for DNAPL pool dissolution in the absence of a discontinuous gas phase, these concentrations were greater than expected, and were present at greater than expected elevations.

Mr. Shannon said demand for the properties had been greater than expected.

Immunotherapy can also be combined with targeted therapy to achieve synergistic effects (effects that are greater than expected).

The spears "suggest that the behavioral complexity of these early humans was greater than expected," she said.

"What we've seen is that the effect has been greater than expected but we don't know why this is at the moment," Dr Sutter told The Independent.

Although the sharp drop in March housing starts was greater than expected, Mr. Fine believes it was also, in all likelihood, an overstatement of any softness in housing.